Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-06
THE RAILROADS.
What Mr.. Huntington Proposes to do
About Building Line from
st. Louis TO Fort Worth.
The Fort Worth Western Engineers OBJ
tain a Fine Limo to the City of
Graham-HOme Notes.
Home Notes.

The grade on the Fort Worth and Rio
Grande is very nearly finished to Gran
bury.
1t will be but few months until the
CITY of Fort Worth is on the main line of
the Southern Pacific.
j. NJ. Phillips, Master of Transports
tion of the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe,
&as in Fort Worth last night.
Judge Veale of Breckenridge, one Of
the railroad committee of that city who
has been in Fort Worth day or two,
left for home last night.
The Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe is said
to have track laid on the Fort Worth eX-
tension to point thirty-two miles north
of Red river in the Indian Territory.
If President Fordyce of the St. Louis,
Arkansas and Texas pays Fort Worth q
visit this week, as it is said he will do, he
will probably have something interesting
to say to our people.
All California excursion trains start out
from Fort Worth. The next one leaves
this city on February 10, and railroad
officials say they expect it to be the great
est excursionIever leaving here
The reamer for the Texas and Pacific
to be used in charging the mole of the
artersIan well was completed yesterday
and is in use. In q few days the slate
will be cut away, the casing sunk and the
water will be gushing forth.
II the mountain will not come to Ma
homet the prophet will go to the noun
tain. The St. Louis and San Francisco
road may rot build to Bonham, Mckinney
and Fort Worth, but Fort Worth, McKin-
ney and Bonham will surely build to Ar
thur City.
General Dodge knew what he was talk
ing about when he said Fort Worth had
the grandest terminal facilities in Texas,
and that the railroads at other places had
only enough land on which to do local
business. "This," said General Dodge,
"will make Fort Worth the great distrib
uting center of the southwest and will
attract all railroads entering the state"
Circular No. issued from the general
passenger and ticket Office of the Gulf,
Colorado and Santa Fe at Galveston
reads as follows; To all concerned:
Taking effect this date Mr.. Max Raumaun
is appointed ticket agent for this COM
pany in this city. James S. Cark, Gen
eral Passenger and Ticket Agent. APP
proved, W. Snyder, General Manager.
February 4, 1887.
The Fort Worth Weslern corps of en-
gineers are housed up near Graham uw-
ing to the wet weather but will in a few
DAYS run the lines to Throcbmorton.
Contrary to expectation Chief Engineer
Hall found q good line into Graham. 1t
is said that as soon Is the line is perma-
nentIy located as far IS Throckmorton q
line will be run from the main line TO
Albany through Crystal Falls and Brock
enridge.
Mr., Huntington has an interest in the
. Frisco lines, and the Frisco is about TO
parallel the st. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern from Cuba and Salem, Mo-, to
Hot Springs, Ark, and thence to Clarks-
vile, Tex. From GAINESVILLE, Tex, Mr..
Huntington will tske up the work and
build to Roberts, the present terminus of
the Houston and Texas Central
The Central runs to Gsrret and
WsxaAschie and on this road will
through trains from st. Louis run, and
then over the Fort Worth and New Or
leans to Fort WORTH and the northwest.
This is down on the cards, and portion
of the work is now under way. Mr..
Huntington and his colleagues, Croker
and Stanford, are something of railroad
kings themselves, and will soon let Texas !
hear from them.
High officials of the St. Louis, Arkansas
and Texas are now travelling over their t
road, and will, it is said, pay Fort Worth |
g visit. The Globe-Democrat of Febru-
airy says: George Coppell of She bond
holders commi tee and Z. Il. PeHdIeton,
one OF the New York directors OF -. TIC S St
Louis, Arkansas and Texas, were i1 St.
Louis yesterday ip conference with Presi-
dent Fordyce and Yice,President